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From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

9/4/13, 8:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 9:32 PM CET

Vladimir Drobnjak of Croatia has been moved on.

Vladimir Drobnjak of Croatia has twice been Croatia’s ambassador to the EU. He held the post in 2000-03 and was reappointed last year. In between, he was Croatia’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, and then Croatia’s chief negotiator with the EU.

It came as a surprise to many in the Brussels diplomatic community, however, that now that Croatia has joined the EU, Drobnjak has been moved on. He has been sent off to the United Nations again, leaving the post of Croatia’s permanent representative to the EU to be filled by 40-year-old Mato Škrabalo, who has never been an ambassador before. Since 2000, when he joined the foreign ministry, Škrabalo has mostly been in in New York, where he served at Croatia’s UN embassy in 2002-06 and 2007-11, making it to first secretary. But for the past year-and-a-half Škrabalo has been foreign policy adviser to Zoran Milanovic, Croatia’s centre-left prime minister. Now he has his reward.